Lise G. Bjerregaard is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital. She received her PhD in Public Health Sciences from the University of Copenhagen. Her research has concentrated on life course studies of body weight using large population-based databases to examine causes and consequences of obesity in childhood. Her scientific achievements include identifying that the adverse effects of childhood overweight on type 2 diabetes are reduced by remission of overweight before puberty and maintained normal-weight until early adulthood. She has published more than 30 papers in the field and is active in communicating her research findings to the scientific and lay communities. Currently, she is the PI of two projects focusing on the relationship between infant feeding, infant growth and the risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer as well as the influence of later obesity on these associations. She is actively involved in several Danish initiatives related to obesity in childhood and serves as the president of the Danish Association for the Study of Obesity (part of the European Association for Obesity).
